The Friday singles have never been a lucky round for Team USA. The squad, led by Jim Furyk, gathered an impressive lead at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, after the Thursday match play (5-0). However, after the second round, which is a single-stroke match, concluded, suddenly it was a tie between both teams.

This is the first time since 2005 that the International team has managed to defeat Team USA at stroke play for two consecutive years. “There were signs of good golf out there yesterday, but we just didn’t get it done, and we cleaned it up a little bit today. We were determined to do that, and the crowd is bringing the energy today,” said an optimistic Adam Scott.

However, this marks a rather disappointing record during the captaincy tenure of the American team’s Jim Furyk. Dan Rapaport, the famous golf reporter, recently took to his official X account and shared statistics from the past two seasons of the Presidents Cup. Last year too, Team USA was led by Furyk. “Jim Furyk’s record as a Ryder Cup/Presidents Cup captain in Friday foursomes: 0-9”, reported Rapaport.

Shockingly, the American team that was receiving so much praise after the extraordinary Thursday round, especially because of the partnership between Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele, ended up being scrutinized. Not so much the players as much as the captain Jim Furyk.

Jim Furyk declared a failed captain by the golf community

At the 2022 Presidents Cup, Team USA defeated the International team with a score of 12.5-17.5. However, they failed to give a dominating performance at the Friday Four balls. Starting from Adam Scott and Cam Davis, defeating Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth by 1-up, to Corey Conners and Taylor Pendrith defeating Billy Horschel and Max Homa at the final tee, they failed to score anything at all.

Taking to this, people left comments like, “Yeah maybe let him sit the selection out next time” and “Not ideal”.

Kevin Kisner is currently the US Assistant Captain, but he seems to be holding a better record at the Presidents Cup matches, as compared to that of Jim Furyk. Given the stat, one of the fans believed he would make a better fit for captain, and commented, “Kisner needs to be captain….”

Jim Furyk was the acting captain last year at the 2022 Presidents Cup. He has appeared at 16 editions as a player, including both the Ryder Cup and the Presidents Cup, and has also been a captain of two more. However, the 54-year-old had a rather poor statistic when it came to scores. He has an average of 21.5 points. Looks like a golf enthusiast had a solution for it too. “Why do we go back to failing captains?? So many options. Bring back Zinger!” They wrote.

While one of them taking to the poor record, the American team has when it comes to foursomes, simply commented, “What is the USA overall the last couple years of Friday foursomes. We get dominated every Ryder Cup Friday on their soil”.

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